Collar-button



L. G. BALDWIN.

COLLAR BUTTON.

APPUCATION FIFLED JUNE 9.1920.

Patented June 21, 1921.

LAWRENCE G BALDWIN, OF EASTLAND, TEXAS.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

Application filed June 9, 1920.

I '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Lawrence G. BALD- wiN. a citizen of the United at Eastland, in the county of Eastland and;

State of Texas. have invented new and use i'ul Improvements in Collar-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive button which may be constructed of nonmetallic material and which being applicable to bands of the usual commercial form will adapt itself to the curvature of the band and afford no objectionable projection or in no way obstruct the tree adjustment oi the tie in connection with the folded type of collar, and with these objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawings, wherein lfiigure l, is a rear view of a portion of a collar neck band with the collar button arranged in operative relation thereto a portion of the collar being broken away to expose the terminal of the button.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same.

Fig. 3 is a View of the button detached.

The improved button or collar fastener consists essentially of a base or plate 10 which may be formed of any suitable yielding or bendable material having sufficient stiffness to retain its form such as celluloid, card board or if preferred aluminum or the like, of such dimensions as to permit of its insertion into the pocket ordinarily formed in the back of the shirt collar band or neck band, such pocket usually being provided with its outer wall punctured to form a circular opening or hole to prevent contact of the button engaged therein with the neck of the wearer.

The base or plate 10 is provided with an lip-struck or cut-out tongue 11 integral with the base or plate and adapted to be sprung Specification of Letters Patent.

States, residing Patented June 21, 1921. Serial No. 387,680.

or deflected from the plane thereof SLlfilciently, after the introduction of the base unto the pocket of the neck band, to project through the bottom hole for terminal e zposure so that the button hole of the collar band may engage therewith. In the construction illustrated, the tongue 11 is separated from the blank plate 10 upon curved line extending around the extremity of the tongue, which when the plate is arranged in the neck band pocket 12 is adapted to project terminally through the neck band button hole 13 so that the collar band let having the usual button hole 15 may engage with the said projecting terminal as indicated in Fig. 2 and thus be held in contact with the neck band of the shirt without the objectionable projection ordinarily aft'orded by the head of a collar button similarly engaged with the registering button holes or the neck band and collar band. The rounded contour of the tongue 11 affords an engaging means by which the sliding movement of a tie fitted between the collar told 16 and the collar band l lmay be unobstructed and obviously the pressure of the tie will serve to hold the free end of the edge of the tongue members against the collar band and will thus cooperate with the other elements in maintaining the collar in its proper relation with the neck band of the shirt.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is A collar button consisting of a flexible plate adapted to conform itself to the shape of a collar where it is attached to the latter, the said button having a base and an integral tongue upstruck "from thebase and normally lying in the plane oi the latter but adapted to be terminally deflected -from said plane.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

LAWRE NOE Gr. BALDWIN.

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